Looks like BitTorrent is getting into the private communications game: http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/17/6338417/bittorrent-bleep-secure-chat-app-public-alpha-released
"Bleep keeps messages encrypted for their entire ride, so theoretically only their sender and receiver should be able to see them." ... "Bleep avoids that by sending its communications directly between the people who are talking, rather than relying on an intermediary. That said, there's still a matter of making that connection between two people in the first place, as they have to figure out where on the internet one another actually is. That's handled with a traditionally BitTorrent type of network that distributes the information across the phones and computers of people hooked into Bleep. BitTorrent says that this information is encrypted so that your computer's digital location won't be seen by anyone but the party you're actually looking for, and no one but the receiving party should even know who you're looking for either. Altogether, BitTorrent says that it would be "practically impossible" to gather metadata on who's talking to who." _______________________________________________ Guardian-dev mailing list Post: [email protected] List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev To Unsubscribe Send email to: [email protected] Or visit: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/options/guardian-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com You are subscribed as: [email protected]
